This year, for the first time since John Peel's untimely death in 2004, the BBC didn't mark the anniversary of his final show with a special day of gigs and breathless eulogies. But a pleasing tribute has emerged online in the shape of seven songs recorded by Atlanta art-rockers Deerhunter. In September, the band headed into a studio on Platts Eyot, an island in the middle of the Thames in Hampton, west London. There, they set the studio's vintage equipment running and made some "stream-of-consciousness" recordings, "in memory of Peel and his Radio 1 sessions".

The results can be streamed on a player resembling an old cassette deck at 4ad.com/features/deerhunter/. It's beautiful, engaging stuff, with nagging hooks, skittering electronica and ethereal vocals. You get the feeling Peel would have approved.

There are several websites dedicated to Peel's legacy. Among the best is the BBC's at bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel, although it hasn't been updated since last year, leaving some of the links out of date. The site offers details of every Peel Session ever recorded and audio clips from many of them. It also features all 31 of Peel's Festive Fifty charts of his listeners' favourite tracks of the year. The annual countdown is being kept alive by Dandelion Radio (dandelionradio.com), an excellent volunteer-run internet radio station inspired by Peel; it is now accepting votes for this year's list. The station's 10 DJs each record one show a month, featuring "strange, challenging, new, old and different music", with the shows then played on a continuous loop. If you were a regular listener to Peel's Radio 1 show, you will almost certainly love it.

Following the demise of Muxtape.com in August, after it fell foul of copyright rules, Mixwit has emerged as the internet's new home of the compilation tape. Where Muxtape let you upload 12 songs from your computer then share your online mixtape with friends, Mixwit allows playlists of up to 100 songs, which it streams via the vast databases of three music search engines (which, apparently, makes it legal). Also, unlike Muxtape, you can search other users' mixtapes, helping you to locate, for example, a cracking 54-track compilation of John Peel's favourite songs at mixwit.com/notrespass

But perhaps best of all, when you make your mixtape, you can choose from pictures of several dozen old cassette tapes to represent it. Then, when you email the link to your friends, they'll see the spools turning on your customised tape as they listen. Cutting-edge technology seldom provides such a warm, nostalgic glow.